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2 jul. 2012

Olive vs. Sunflower oil Spectra - 002 (ChemoSpec)

I add other data set of “sunflower oil” to import together with the olive oil into ChemoSpec R package. Before, as I showed in a video (Preparing spectra to import into ChemoSpec), every sample has been acquired with a NIR instrument (in transmittance) and transformed into a CSV file.

Olive samples are in red, so we can see some differences visually respect to the sunflower oil (blue). Anyway we will zoom some areas of the spectra in order to see better the differences.

We can see an olive oil sample, which is different from the rest. We have the raw spectra, so there are not math treatments applied, or baseline correction.

Let’s see one of the areas (around 1720nm). Oils with high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids have the maximum peak at 1720nm (in this case the sunflower oil), olive oil (in red) is more reach in monounsaturated fatty acids, so the band moves to the right to a higher frequency (1724 nm aprox.).

plotSpectra(oils, title = "(olive / sunflower) oils",

which = 1:19,xlim = c(1680,1800))

Other area where we can notice the difference is around 2140 nm where the oils with polyunsaturated fatty acids have a higher intensity than the oils with more monounsaturated fatty acids. (Anyway here one of the samples of olive oil is similar to the sunflower oil. So this sample could be considered as an outlier.

plotSpectra(oils, title = "(olive / sunflower) oils",

which = 1:19,xlim = c(2100,2200),yrange=c(1.0,1.8))

We can practice the option to remove problematic sample from the manual: